"One
peculiarity of the present age is that, in some cases, our powers of
application are so compromised that we're incapable of recognizing as
morally edifying anything that doesn't advertise itself as such. The
most glaring example of this confusion is found in the million-dollar
industry of marketing under the title of "Christian." Given our current
cultural climate, the media consumer does well to be wary of any
product that has featured, foremost among its selling points, it's
so-called Christianness. Buyers with a taste for propaganda (and who
soon find themselves strangely disinterested in anything that isn't)
will find, in that which most loudly advertises itself as Christian,
much in the way of crude moralism and plenty in the way of slogans and
cliches that encourage blissful disregard of the soon-to-be-destroyed
world around them. Often promoting an unincarnate faith, this
phenomenon has more in common [with Gnosticism] than what can be
understood as orthodox belief. I'm personally convinced that such
market-driven theology will be viewed, historically, with at least as
much embarrassment as, say, the medieval sale of indulgences."

- David Dark, Everyday Apocalypse [subtitle: The Sacred Revealed in Radiohead, The Simpsons and Other Pop Culture Icons]

a bit later, on a lighter note:

"Revelation ("the Apocalypse") is a
document that believers throughout history have claimed and tolerated
as a part of their tradition (like some deranged relative), but which
many would prefer not to think about. Mostly unread, it's as if we
assume it to be the obscure clause by which God reserves the right to
go crazy on us."

future chapters and subheadings:

- You Think You Been Redeemed: Flannery O'Connor's Exploding Junk Pile of Despair
- Impossible Laughter: An Appreciative Response to "The Simpsons"
- Bearing Witness: The Tired Gladness of Radiohead
- Living in Fiction: "The Matrix", "The Truman Show", and How to Free Your Mind
- Boogie Nights of the Living Dead: The Moral Vision of Beck
- Daylight Is a Dream If You've Lived with Your Eyes Closed: The Cinematic Epiphanies of Joel and Ethan Coen